WebSphere® Commerce is the premiere market-leading e-commerce solution from IBM®. WebSphere eXtreme Scale is a powerful elastic DataGrid technology that you can use as an advanced cache from IBM. eXtreme Scale allows you to deploy a highly scalable, distributed shared cache that can provide a significant performance benefits for some WebSphere Commerce customers. This article discusses how you can leverage eXtreme Scale to reduce restart time for your e-commerce site, improve response time, and improve throughput during frequent cache invalidation.

A brief introduction : My name is Rohit Kelapure and I work on the caching component aka (DynaCache) of the IBM WebSphere Application Server product I start this blog to discuss and ramble on topics of interest in software particularly caching in J2EE application servers Please note that my thoughts in no way reflect IBM's position.